Rodzina w systemie społecznym: Klasyczne teorie i badania psychologii międzykulturowej

An undeniable fact in psychology is the statement that the individual fate of an individual is influenced by family influences, but these depend to a large extent on the location of the family in the social structure and, more broadly, in a specific civilization context. Cross-cultural psychology provides a lot of information in this regard, although it seems to be far from the final conclusions. The presented text provides an overview of important theoretical approaches and research relating to contemporary cross-cultural differences in the sphere of family life. In the first subsection, they deal with general approaches and system structure. The second presents data on research related to the concept of parental ethonotheroia of child rearing. The third section is devoted to tracking the specificity of Polish families against the background of the modern world – international research, taking into account the Polish sample, and the comparison of the results of Polish and American research carried out with the use of the same measurement tool (resulting from a specific and, as it turned out, culturally-dependent theory).